Through the Eyes of Descartes

Seeing, Thinking, Writing

Cecilia Sjöholm,Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780253068248
• Thema: Filosofía
• Thema: Filósofos

"I shall here present my life, " writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images.

Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with contemporary phenomenology as well as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They focus on how perception interacts with emotions and thought, and the way in which our gaze is directed toward limit-phenomena of beauty and fascination.

In Through the Eyes of Descartes, Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback counter the traditional picture of Descartes by presenting his work in an entirely different light: a Descartes of the arts, of sensibility, of inner images, and of imagination.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Descartes’s Visceral Aesthetics: The Violence of the Beautiful and the Ugly / Cecilia Sjöholm
• 2. Philosophical Emotion: Descartes and the Aesthetics of Thought / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
• 3. Descartes’s Performative Cogito / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
• 4. Rhythms of Snow: Figures of Differentiation in Descartes’s Meteorology / Cecilia Sjöholm
• 5. Thinking through Lines with Descartes / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
• 6. The Gaze, Images, and Drives / Cecilia Sjöholm
• 7. The Thinking Fetus / Cecilia Sjöholm
• 8. The Love between Body and Soul / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Subject Index
• Names Index
• About the Authors